Norton GoBack 4.0 review:3 stars (Phenomenal Love-Hate effect with GoBack) - Ok, folks.

There's something truly wrong with the GoBack scene. Among the planted fake reviews, are some truly pleased people. On my old Win2000 machine, I was one. It ate YukkyWare by rolling back to before it existed. Done right, that's an amazing thing.

I investigate some software options for my company. LUCKILY I bought GoBack with my OWN credit card, and decided to install it on a test basis in privacy. Norton doesn't install. "Needs this much contiguous space." Ok, I ran Start/Programs/Acessories/System Tools/Defragmenter TWICE.
GoBack decides this is enough, and installs.

BOOM! I too, met the dreaded BlackScreen. 6 Month old XP machine with basically nothing wrong. Unbelievable. The Downloaded version doesn't have a manual readily available (!) , so I had to get lucky to first disable, followed by Last Good Configuration, and then uninstall GoBack, with two reboots. Scary. I chose not to recommend this to my boss. :/

I called Symantec (after wasting an hour with their information screen and technique of hiding support numbers.) Rep tells me "maybe your hard drive has problems." (You mean BEFORE, or AFTER installing GoBack?) Enough of Symantec Tech.
So I turn off System restore, turn off 3/4 of the preloads, disable Norton Internet and Norton AntiVirus, and try again. Same BlackScreen. Disable GoBack, Last Good Configuration, Uninstall GoBack. Tried to look at the invoice I saved. The webpage contains Java elements. Internet explorer crashed so hard "End Now" ... didn't end it. Rebooted Windows.

Right. I damn nearly annihilated my work computer. (I'd love to explain that one!)

So I get this brilliant idea. "Look! Since I nearly ruined my work computer, maybe it will work at home!!!!" Drumroll....
... Which it does. << Smacks Forehead >>

This is too much. So I went reseaching. See the amazon reviews. Someone BlackScreened on Win XP1, so it's not the infamous Destruction Pack 2. Someone reported a problem at the Bios level. (GoBack conflicts with OEM Bios installs?? GREAT.)
Someone else mentioned Dell. The comp I nearly blew up was a dell. It works on an E-Machine.

Network Connections? RAID drives? Wireless networks? Dell Proprietary software at the setup level? I don't have a $100,000 budget to do the research report with. Symantec seemed unimpressed when Windows wouldn't boot. (Isn't that what usually gets a supervisor involved?)

Result is, when this thing works, it's really incredible.

"Said Medicine makes you impervious to Earthquakes, Floods, and Fires. Side effects include Coma."

If you're brave and you get lucky, fine. If not, there's something in Windows XP and/or Version 4.0 that annihilates 60% of computers. So what's the average temperature between the interior of the Sun and Absolute Zero? 3 Stars.

--TaoPhoenix1 stars (Won't Go Back from Norton GoBack ...) - After installing Norton GoBack my system could not boot any longer and could not "Go Back" not even the restore functionality of XP solved the problem. In conclusion had to fix the problem using the XP installation CD.

- I had a fresh XP system installed (OEM from DELL)
- No previous Norton software installed
- Everything working fine until, I made the mistake of
installing this Norton GoBack.
- Had to do lot of post XP installation work, fixing
several applications that did not longer work.

Technical support? they sent me such a huge list of changes including many uninstall/install and restarts i.e. uninstall/install/uninstall/install/uninstall/install and then if you get whatever issue in the middle just start all over again.

Sorry I do not like this Norton game of uninstall/install ... have more interesting things to do.

1 stars (Absolute piece of ....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) - I installed this software after reinstalling XP. I had a perfect setup, with all the software I would like to have if I needed to reinstall. I load this crap, and rewrites my drive letters, and completely freaks out my system!

I have to reinstall everything because it will only show "Load Error press any key to reboot...", and it won't go away. When I reinstall XP, I see that it changed my bootable drive to drive letter "I", and XP will not boot from "I".

STAY AWAY... This is dangerous stuff, and norton should stick with anti-virus.

STAY FAR, FAR, FAR AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Norton GoBack 4.0 Features:
Computer software (programs)
Utilities
Back up (Backup Backing)
Maintenance
Diagnostics (Diagnostic)
Hardware
Memory Management
CD
AutoBack for scheduling regular system resets
Restore system to healthy state after system problem or user error
Retrieve deleted files easily; recover individual files or an entire hard drive
Quickly find files or folders to restore with search bar
Simple click rolls back disk drive to original state with SafeTry mode

Norton GoBack 4.0 is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 44.99USD.